1968

The 1968 podcast series documents a journey, for our country and for me personally, toward a doorway out of a past we will never return to toward a future we can scarcely imagine.

When 1968 began, I continued to harbor dreams of moving back to Spokane and becoming a doctor like my dad. As the year was ending, I was rehearsing for my first performance as a member of The Brothers Four. By the end of 1968 the American Dream and many Americans’ dreams would prove to be even more transformed than my own.

As the song 1968 declares: It was a year like other years, the best and worst of times. Twelve months that tried our souls and tried our hearts and minds. That brought us to the future we living to this day. The peril and the promise that was 1968.

Podcast episodes

  • 1968 - Part 1

    (Episode 20)

    Albert Einstein famously said that "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

    The Brothers Four early photo

  • 1968 - Part 2

    (Episode 21)

    In the Summer of 1968 I went back to New York City to do social work. On some level at 21 years old I wanted to do what I could to change the world.

    1968 Part 2 podcast image

Videos

  • Nineteen Sixty-Eight

    1968 was a year of upheaval for the country. Young leaders shot and killed. Cities burned. A year that ended with three astronauts circling the moon and wishing our world peace on earth.

  • When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home

    I first learned and sang "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" when I was in high school. Bud and Travis as well as the Chad Mitchell Trio sang versions of this song. I was moved by both of them.

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